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The EU keeps coming within inches of voting for making secure encryption impossible. Chat Control would have been worse for privacy than anything the US has.
Don't pretend like Chat Control is ever going to get through.
Each time they are going to vote it down, it gets retracted and changed slightly so they can try again. And every time it gets voted down again.
Politicians know that they would get out-voted in the next election if they go through with it.
Iirc they just passed something that enforced the opposite to chat control to stop the constant reintroduction of the same over reaching law